Removing attachments but delivering the message

Fabio Viero fviero at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 23:30:01 IST 2007


Great Julian, thanks for the help.

And as for credit cards, yes, non-international ones exists. The bad thing
about them is that they´re valid only inside your country ;)

On 10/3/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> If you want to learn about Custom Functions, then take a look in
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions and read the code
> samples in there.
>
> As for credit cards, I didn't realise that non-international credit
> cards existed, sorry.
>
> Fabio Viero wrote:
> > Sure that helps...i´ll be sending my MailScanner.conf ASAP
> >
> > In the meantime could you please direct me to some sort of tutorial
> > about writing Custom Functions? And by the way, i would by your book
> > but i don´t have an international credit card. I tried to look for it
> > at some of the best bookstores here in Brazil but couldn´t find your
> > book in any of these :(
> >
> > Thanks in advance Julian
> >
> > On 10/3/07, *Julian Field* <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
> > <mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
> >
> >     For the attachments, I'm not sure why you aren't still receiving the
> >     "got the message but the attachment was too large" message, I
> >     would have
> >     to take a look at your system setup to see that one. As to making
> >     it set
> >     the attachment size limit depending on the subject, that could be
> done
> >     with a very short Custom Function that looked at
> >     "$message->{subject}"
> >     to decide what value to return to the attachment limit configuration
> >     setting.
> >
> >     Hope that helps a bit,
> >     Jules.
> >
> >     Fabio Viero wrote:
> >     > Hi Julian
> >     >
> >     > Thanks for your reply. I´ll try to be more specific and i also did
> >     > some testing on what i think is the correct approach for my
> problem.
> >     > Unfortunatelly i ran into some dificulties here.
> >     >
> >     > We have a system that sends a huge number of messages to a huge
> >     number
> >     > of distinct recipients on the internet and we receive a lot of
> >     bounces
> >     > (mailbox overquota, recipient does not exist and the like). We
> would
> >     > like to drop these messages altogether. In some cases these
> >     warnings
> >     > are attachments and we also would like to drop these
> >     attachments. See
> >     > that i have a distinct list for messages i want to delete and for
> >     > messages i want to drop the attachment. Differences between one
> and
> >     > the other are done by the Subject field. In common they have the
> To:
> >     > field
> >     >
> >     > What i did already:
> >     > 1. Setup some MCP rules for the Subject. But i soon realized i
> >     > couldn´t do that because while i can tell MS to drop MCP´s i
> >     want to
> >     > do that based on a specific To address. Should i do that by using
> a
> >     > second body statement in the rule?
> >     >
> >     > 2. For the attachments, i followed your direction and created a
> >     > ruleset that looks like the following:
> >     > To:    user at domain.com.br <mailto:user at domain.com.br>
> >     <mailto:user at domain.com.br <mailto:user at domain.com.br>>    1
> >     > FromOrTo:     default    -1
> >     >
> >     > No problem arose here, but i checked Mailwatch and the status of
> >     the
> >     > message told that the attachment was too large, that´s correct but
> i
> >     > didn´t receive any message on the user mailbox. It seemed like the
> >     > message was not delivered (although Mailwatch report told it was,
> i
> >     > mean no spam, bad content or anything) and i have both the
> >     message and
> >     > the attach stored in the quarantine. Maybe here i´ll have a hard
> >     > issue. How can i tell MS to remove an attachment based on its
> >     message
> >     > Subject field? Is it possible at all?
> >     >
> >     > Thanks a lot Julian
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > On 10/3/07, *Julian Field* <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
> >     <mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> >     > <mailto: MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
> >     <mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >     >     Hash: SHA1
> >     >
> >     >     Set the maximum attachment size to 1 byte and it will strip
> all
> >     >     attachments.
> >     >
> >     >     Fabio Viero wrote:
> >     >     > Hi List
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Is there a way i can remove the attachment(s) from certain
> >     specific
> >     >     > messages but still the delivering the message itself?
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Thanks is advance
> >     >     >
> >     >
> >     >     Jules
> >     >
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> >     >     -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >     >     Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017)
> >     >     Comment: (pgp-secured)
> >     >     Charset: ISO-8859-1
> >     >
> >     >
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> >     >     SAbwrvsoCxDGTiPuay89RRY=
> >     >     =Vr9N
> >     >     -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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